Ongar 'could be reconnected to Tube network' following railway extension

 
Tube network: Ongar could be reconnected to the Underground if Epping can be joined with the Epping-Ongar Railway (Picture: Getty)
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Ramzy Alwakeel20 April 2015

Ongar could be reconnected with the Underground, it has been suggested - 21 years after the northernmost station on the Central line was shut.

The heritage Epping-Ongar Railway - which hit headlines last month after allowing a porn film to be shot on one of its trains - will extend its line by 800 metres, taking it within 100 metres of Epping Tube station. That raises the possibility of a link into the Underground network, the railway's Chris Marsack told the Brentwood Gazette.

Head of track and signalling Mr Marsack said: "It remains the railway's ambition to re-establish a link with the Tube at Epping and this extension of our running line westward literally brings that much closer."

A Canadian pornography company filmed on the volunteer railway earlier this year and footage has been viewed almost 240,000 times online.

The railway said it had been closed to the public at the time but called the decision to allow filming an “error in judgment”.

The Ongar terminus of the Central line, served by the Tube since 1949, was shut in September 1994 during a cost-cutting exercise.

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